(198 quotes found)
“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.”
William Shakespeare
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak - With most miraculous organ”
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain”
“Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses”
John Milton
“It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.”
George W. Bush
“That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth”
John Lyly
